Love, Amy The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt |
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| Author:
| Clampitt, Amy |
| Editor:
| Spiegelman, Willard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-13287-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Amy Clampitt lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success at the age of sixty-three with the publication of The Kingfisher (1983). Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. The letters detail her life in Manhattan, a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment), as well as her ongoing...
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Amy Clampitt lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success at the age of sixty-three with the publication of The Kingfisher (1983). Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. The letters detail her life in Manhattan, a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment), as well as her ongoing efforts to find a place for herself in the world of literature